Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?

[H. J. Lu]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:12:14PM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:50:26PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > In any case, parted can't handle my 80GB Mator IDE HD and kernel/fdisk
> > work just fine. If you have any patches, I can give them a try. I will
> > keep my patch if no solution is found soon.
> 
> Ah, I had a look at the bug report.
> 
> How/when did parted create that partition table?  Was it during
> a Red Hat install?
> 
> I suspect that kernel thought the disk was 155114/16/63, and aligned
> the partitions accordingly.  Parted is seeing that now.

Kernel reports

Aug 26 10:42:15 hlu kernel: hda: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, 
CHS=9732/255/63, UDMA(66)


H.J.